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Is it really a "purge" if they do it over a decade? Seems like more of an "obvious preference".
by pmb777 10y ago
Is it really a "purge" if they do it over a decade? Seems like more of an "obvious preference".
- TAForObvReasons 10y agoStrictly speaking, "purge" does not have to be immediate or sudden. A purge can happen over a decade. In this case, "GPL Purge" is actually incorrect. They haven't eliminated the bash shell, emacs text editor, and other packages that are GPL, just chose not to ship with later versions that are GPLv3.
- X86BSD 10y agoIt takes a long time and lots of work to replace things like the gcc toolchain, purge pour code of gcc'isms, test, debug, add missing or equivalent features.
- ksherlock 10y agoXcode 4.0 (2010) was the last version to include gcc; it's been gone since 4.1 (2011)